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Anthropic’s Claude AI Deletes PocketOS Production Database and Backups - Founder is an Idiot

2026-04-28 Science & Technology
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Top Comments (10)

@uclassc 2026-04-28

The guy who made the backup was probably laid off 3 months ago due to AI

600 26 replies
@wolfvenheim 2026-04-28

CEO probably fired the server administrator and infrastructure teams thinking he could replace them with dumb AI Tools to prop up AI madness

236 9 replies
@andrasszerencses 2026-04-28

I bet they have only a three month old backup cuz they fired the guy who did the backup. Truth is always refreshing to hear

214 1 replies
@deathsyth8888 2026-04-28

The whole database wiped out in 9 seconds? I last longer than that!

145 9 replies
@peterjol 2026-04-28

the guy who did the backup was probably made redundant three months ago

110 5 replies
@paradoxicalcat7173 2026-04-28

That the AI was programmed to pretend it is real, alive, and thinking, is next-level dystopian.

85 16 replies
@Left4Coragem 2026-04-28

Even as a complete layman, whenever someone says they are "vibe coding" all I can hear is "you have no idea how to do your job".

61 4 replies
@the-pixel-dev 2026-04-28

The person who had the smarts to create an offsite backup, the founder probably replaced them with Claude AI.

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@agnideva8227 2026-04-28

My IT career started in an era that used the term "five nines" to describe the tolerances our service level agreement guaranteed. So glad to know my extensive experience priced me out of a career where my WORST backup would have been from last night, and I'd be embarrassed if I couldn't just replay logs or find a shadow copy...

32 3 replies
@GilaadE 2026-04-29

Listening to the CEO's rant, am I the only one that gets the feeling that the CEO was driving the agent when the incident happened?

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